Latest Contributions by MikeMinami

Unfortunately, you can't create domains on hosted layers yet. It's something we're working on. I don't see any domain set on Category field of the hosted feature layer you published, so it didn't come across from desktop. Are you sure you configured the domain properly and hooked it up? Were you able to use the domain in ArcMap? For example, I think if you were to edit the data in ArcMap, you would see the domains appear as dropdown options on the field. Mike ... View more

Just to be clear, you have created logins for AGOL that don't use enterprise logins. Now, you want to activate enterprise logins and use the same username that exists already in AGOL. Attempting to login with an AD login that matches an existing AGOL login will fail. The system won't try to create a new one. I spoke with our developers here and they said in order to implement active directory you could "change the NameId saml attribute that is returned from the IDP to be something other than what they were sending so it would not conflict with the existing usernames." This means modifying what Active Directory does, which could impact other things in your organization. The only other thing I can think of would be to introduce another manual process of creating new usernames for all employees, transferring existing content to that username, then to delete all the old usernames, then activate enterprise logins and sign in again and transfer all content. not the best news... Mike ... View more

William Trachtman​ 1. Have you hooked up the domain to the field in your feature class? Can you see the domain in ArcMap when you edit the field? Associating default values and domains with tables and feature classes—ArcGIS Help | ArcGIS for Desktop 2. Do you want to create a map service that is hosted on your own ArcGIS Server? I think if you create the domain and publish the map service to your server, the filter would work against it as well and present a dropdown list. I've not tried this however. 3. You can do this all via a hosted feature layer in ArcGIS Online. Once you set up a domain and connect it to the field in your layer, when you publish from ArcMap that domain should be published as well. Mike ... View more

Unfortunately, you can't can't configure your enterprise logins to use the same username that already exists in AGOL. If you do this, the enterprise login will fail because a username already exists. However, this is a good idea and I'll write it up as an enhancement. I'm not sure what it would take to do this, so no guarantees... Mike ... View more

You are correct. There is no ability to transfer group ownership to/from public accounts. If you have an organizational subscription to ArcGIS Online, administrators of the organization can transfer group ownership between members of the organization. Thanks, Mike ... View more

Unfortunately, there is no way to control ordering or the result. As the layers in ArcGIS Online reference web services, we're dependent on the speed of the response of a given server and display the first response first (thus, there is no ordering of results across multiple layers). There also isn't a way to specify a sort order for a given layer. There are no current plans to change this behavior. In your second question, do you want all the results to display in the popup at once and then you could pick one to examine it further, like ArcMap Identify? This is not possible either. Mike ... View more

No, you still can't change the popup window size. Thanks, Mike ... View more

The 1000 features is not a hard limit, but an easy way to explain this. Obviously, drawing 1000 points as graphic elements is much less work than drawing 1000 polygons, each with 1000 vertices. As far as the best approach, that's a hard question to answer. Also there's a difference between storing your data  on premises (Portal for ArcGIS) or in the cloud (ArcGIS Online). ArcGIS Online provides two ways to serve our your vector data: - Hosted feature layer - Hosted tile layer Portal for ArcGIS (which includes ArcGIS for Server) has another way - Feature layer - Tile layer - Map image layer (aka Map Service) In the previous post, I describe the advantages between hosted feature and hosted tile layers. If you're using Portal, you have the Map Image Layer option, which is sort of a blended case. With a map image layer, the server does all the drawing and returns an image of the layer to a client. But if you need to, you can access the actual geometry of a feature. Hope this helps, Mike ... View more

The map service layer gets drawn differently depending on how you add it to the map. If you add it without an index number for a layer (e.g., .../0) it means you are adding the map service and all sublayers inside the map service. In this case, when the map service layer is drawn, the map viewer of arcgis.com requests an image from the server of the layer. The server creates the image and returns it to the map viewer. The server is doing all of the work to draw the layer. When you add a layer to a map with an index number (with the /0), you are now bypassing the the image drawing on the server. Instead, when the map viewer requests that individual layer from the map service, the server returns the actual coordinates of the features in the layer. The features are then drawn by the web browser (or other client) as graphic elements on a "graphics layer" of the browser. This graphics layer draws on top of everything and thus draws over any other map service layers drawn as images. This post may help as well Who can make this  ESRI'S reply simple and easy to understand ? While it describes the behavior of shapefiles, the same applies to map services drawn with an index number (effectively, you are drawing a map service as features). Hope this helps. Mike ... View more

Thanks for the feedback. I have submitted a request to improve the documentation here. At least with a note on this directly in the filter web app template here: http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=1bdcdf930b4345dfb4db10f795e0c726 This limitation is specific to the Filter web app template. In the map viewer, the filter works and can provide a dropdown list of choices without a coded value domain set up. Thanks, Mike ... View more

Stephen Shepard​ I've not used ArcPad, so I'm not familiar with how it handles data. However, I did read some ArcPad documentation. ArcMap will publish a geodatabase layer with attachments to ArcGIS Online, and take the attachments with it. So if this is what you have, it should work. However, from what I've read in the ArcPad documentation, it seems ArcPad doesn't support attachments from a geodatabase, using the ArcPad Data Manager: ArcPad Help If you're using a photo layer in ArcPad, I don't think those photos will publish because they are not part of the geodatabase. Now if you can integrate them somehow... ... View more

there's no way to tell by looking at the map; you need to know the source of the layer. The list of layer types I posted above are those that draw as graphics. Mike ... View more

I believe the time zone property affects the layer as a whole. You can optionally enable time on the layer based on an individual field, which allows the features to display according to their time when you draw features base on their time. Mike ... View more

Stephen Shepard​ - if you upload data to a hosted layer in arcgis online, I believe the attachments come with it. I'm not sure how ArcPad works with arcgis online, however. Matthew Proctor-Brown​ - I agree with you. Ideally, you would not have to generate thumbnails yourself and the system would just handle it automatically. Mike ... View more